| They have sold their golden birthright of American liberty for a mess of coward's pottage. |
| Every day, the pupils would have milk or milk pottage for breakfast, a vegetable-based dinner at midday, and broth with a piece of bread for supper. |
| It is a bargain of which thousands, like Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, have repented, but many, unhappily, like Esau, have repented too late. |
| I added barley to what remained and boiled it until we had a thick pottage. |
| Then sell this mess of pottage by throwing reason, history and the economic facts of reality down the memory hole. |
| Most meals would have been some form of stew, soup or pottage cooked in a cauldron over the central hearth of the house. |
